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> LLMs for writing also suck. It might just be that the people using them don't value writing thst much. That may be true for the use-case of "write me a good
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
> LLMs for writing also suck. It might just be that the people using them don't value writing thst much.
That may be true for the use-case of "write me a good story", as the viral "Wonka Experience in Glasgow" scripts showed. But for what I assume is the usual use case for UpWork copywriting jobs, I'm not so sure. A ton of these jobs are essentially low-value marketing copy for things like banner ads, social media marketing, SEO-targeted blog posts, etc. You may say LLMs suck at writing, but it's not exactly like the human-authored writing for these kind of tasks was on par with Hamlet. My guess is there isn't a huge quality delta between the types of writing ChatGPT replaced and the ChatGPT version, which would explain why people are so willing to use AI for this kind of writing in the first place.
I contrast that with image generation. Pretty much all AI-generated imagery still has a "feel" of being AI (I've complained elsewhere of a trend where I see every blog post these days having a gratuitous and usually dumb AI header image), so for the most part I've seen "pure AI" images in places that previously would have had no images at all, but places that require quality still have humans creating images (though I have no doubt they are now using AI tools).
- cyber_kinetist 3y ago> A ton of these jobs are essentially low-value marketing copy for things like banner ads, social media marketing, SEO-targeted blog posts, etc. An interesting aspect of LLMs today is that it seems to mainly replace the white-collar jobs that are basically were useless to human society anyway (but that workers need to do to in order to survive), or to put, "bullshit" jobs.
- hatenberg 3y agoReally? Voice actors? Concept artists? The technology is the start of knowledge economy industrialisation
- dartos 3y agoI don’t really think so. People were already starting to speak over private, non indexable channels (like discord) before AI blew up. More and more people will just stop sharing meaningful creations in the open for fear of AI groups effectively stealing it for training data. Eventually these AI groups will need to use more controlled or synthetic datasets, which will stall or destroy the progress these models have been making. AI is literally eating its own tail.
- hatenberg 3y agoI think you misunderstood that paper. We already have the technology for near perfect voice cloning and it needs a few minutes of Audio
- razodactyl 3y agoAnd then you permute some variables and you're able to sweep through the space of every voice that ever existed.... Hyperbole for the point I'm trying to make - We've essentially trained the Million Monkeys already.
- nicbou 3y agoThey suck at writing something valuable. Sure, it can write the same blogspan as copywriters for a fraction of the cost, but most readers feel cheated when reading it. It has the same effect as AI generate images. Now Google is specifically targeting this sort of content with its algorithm changes.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>but most readers feel cheated when reading it. To be fair, a lot of the SEO optimized crap on the internet makes the reader feel cheated these days. I'm not too surprised if some sites have already started deploying such services as they gut out the remainder of their labor.
- spaceman_2020 3y agoImo, Midjourney’s images have crossed the boundary to being hard to tell from stock photos
- antifa 3y ago> That may be true for the use-case of "write me a good story" It is absolutely terrible in that use-case. Unless you're generating sub 1000 word stories that all end with the theme of friendship, it's pretty useless and generic.